28).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is the derivation of _language_? What was its original
signification? How wide is its present meaning? 2. As regards the use of
words, what does _language_ denote in the general and in the restricted
sense? 3. What does _speech_ always involve? 4. Can we speak of the
_speech_ of animals? of their _language_? 5. What is a _dialect_? a
_barbarism_? an _idiom_? 6. What is a _patois_? How does it differ from
a _dialect_? 7. What is a _vernacular_?

EXAMPLES.

We must be free or die, who speak the ----
That Shakespeare spake: the faith and morals hold
Which Milton held.

---- is great; but silence is greater.

An infant crying in the night,
An infant crying for the light,
And with no ---- but a cry.

Thought leapt out to wed with Thought,
Ere Thought could wed itself with ----.

A Babylonish ----
Which learned pedants much affect.

O! good, my lord, no Latin;
I'm not such a truant since my coming
As not to know the ---- I have lived in.

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LARGE (page 229).

QUESTIONS.

1. To how many dimensions does _large_ apply? How does it differ from
_long_? 2. How does _large_ compare with _great_? with _big_?

EXAMPLES.

Courage, the mighty attribute of powers above,
By which those ---- in war, are ---- in love.

Everything is twice as ---- measured on a three-year-old's
three-foot scale as on a thirty-year-old's six-foot scale.

And his ---- manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble,
Pipes and whistles in its sound.

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LAW (page 229).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is the definition of _law_ in its ideal? What does it signify in
common use? 2. What are the characteristics of _command_ and
_commandment_? of an _edict_? 3. What is a _mandate_? a _statute_? an
_enactment_? 4. In what special connection is _formula_ commonly used?
_ordinance_? _order_? 5. What is the meaning of _law_ in such an
expression as "the _laws_ of nature?" What in more strictly scientific
use? 6. What is a _code_? _jurisprudence_? _legislation_? What is an
_economy_? Is _law_ ever a synonym for these words, and in what way?

EXAMPLES.

Order is Heaven's first ----; and this confest,
Some are, and must be, greater than the rest.

Those he commands move only in ----,
Nothing in love.

His f